December 11, 2013 by justin
in The Sound
Sick Puppies are out touring in support of its latest album, “Connect.” It’s a project that the band found itself taking a long and winding road to complete. “We wrote for about two months, and then we stopped because it started to get kinda stale,” said guitarist Shim Moore. “We
Read More →Name the “Name That Crime” Quiz! Armed Robbery X 5 Police responded to an armed robber just before midnight on Nov. 18 at Kum and Go, 2110 Guthrie Ave. The suspect used a handgun to hit the clerk in the face, while two witnesses in the store were made
Read More →Family of Man The Marvels of Science: The notorious white separatist Craig Cobb is currently soliciting like-skinned people to move to his tiny town of Leith, N.D. (pop. 16), to create a deluxe Caucasian enclave, but upon the urging of a black TV host to submitting to a DNA test
Read More →Amount: $548.60 To: Ablenet Inc. For: Purchase of Little Step-by-Step with levels, including $25 in shipping fees. Amount: $1,796.07 To: Achievement Products For: Purchase of Hokki stool, including $236.72 in shipping fees. Amount: $799.70 To: Action Accents For: Purchase of Hoover High School girls swim suits. Amount:
Read More →For show folk across Des Moines, there was a great insuck of breath over Thanksgiving weekend. Everyone was gathering for the Christmas season, when a remarkable range of local companies have entertainment on tap. Up in Ames, for starters, ACTORS has “Free to Be… You and Me,” (previewed in Center
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December 04, 2013 by justin
in Joe's Neighborhood
Mazes are fun. I know this, because people pay money to walk into cut-out Iowa corn fields to experience being trapped and lost. Yup, pay money. I’m sure this whole maze-thing started because on some dark autumn night a disgusted Iowa farmer, on a never-ending wait for Congress to pass
Read More →For gamers everywhere, Christmas has come early — the long-awaited next generation of gaming units has finally hit store shelves. Within 10 days of each other, both Sony’s Playstation 4 and Microsoft’s XBox One hit the market this past month and together opened up the console gaming world to a
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December 04, 2013 by justin
in Belly Up To...
Confession: The south side has been deliberately neglected by this column, because a reporter has to have her hideouts. Just over the Southwest Ninth Street viaduct is a business stretch that fits no pigeon hole offering thrift stores, restaurants, groceries and gas. And a different bar beckons conveniently from nearly
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Forget John 3:16; It’s all about Bob 7:14!
Say your prayers! According to a Des Moines Register news report, Robert Vander Plaats is soon into another resurrection as a religious right candidate for public office, rallying his troops around scripture, Chapter 7, Verse 14. The Register didn’t say which 7:14 — so it might have been the Book
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